[Ferret-talk] ignoring 'accents' when i search

[Max Williams]

That's very useful, thanks!  I'm just using the fuzzy search for now, but if
it proves too vague (too many false positive results) then i'll look at
this.

I'd actually never seen that tr() method before, that combined with the
ready-made accent substitutions in your link is itself very handy!

cheers, max

On 21/04/2008, Jens Kraemer <jk at jkraemer.net> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> You might create a custom Analyzer that does the job of replacing
> accentuated characters with their non-accentuated counterparts. If you
> apply this kind of analysis to both indexed content and queries, you'll
> find "La Bohème" with both 'boheme' and 'bohème' as the query string.
>
> there's a sample method that does the replacement part of the job up on
> the aaf wiki: http://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/#UTF-8support
>
> Have a look at the analyzer used in the omdb project for a more complete
> example:
> https://svn.omdb-beta.org/trunk/lib/omdb/ferret/omdb_analyzer.rb
>
> Cheers,
> Jens
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:49:43PM +0100, Max Williams wrote:
> > I just discovered the rather handy fuzzy searches, which i can do by
> adding
> > (eg) "~0.6" to the end of my search term.  So, this does the job (yay),
> but
> > i'd still be interested in hearing if anyone else has solved this
> problem in
> > a different way. :)
> >
> > On 21/04/2008, Max Williams <toastkid.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of a way of being 'accent-insensitive' when i do a
> > > search?
> > >
> > > For example, if i have a resource with the name "La Bohème", and
> someone
> > > searches for 'boheme' i want them to find that resource, even though
> the 'e'
> > > doesn't have the accent.  At the moment, it will only find it if they
> search
> > > for the properly accented version.
> > >
> > > I guess soundex support for ferret is what I mean, but maybe there's
> > > another way?
> > >
> > > thanks, max
> > >
>
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